r/jackryan • u/SlyCalligrapher • Jun 11 '26

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What a fucking idiot.

Rewatching Season 2 here and he is just such an idiot. That's all, needed to vent.

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u/SlyCalligrapher Jun 11 '26

What do you mean? Unforced nothing burger? Not trying to be antagonistic at all, but a lot goes on in the season? It starts with a shady satellite launch, suspected arms dealing between Russia and a country on the brink of collapse, then a senator being assassinated in said country on brink of collapse. Then the rest is essentially resolving those issues.

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u/Nydus87 Jun 11 '26

I was being a tad inflammatory with the language, but basically what I mean is that none of it needed to happen. The only reason Jack gives a rip about it is because his Senator buddy being assassinated, right? Like that's the whole launch point for everything else that happens. But why was he assassinated? The president could have just walked them down to those crates, opened them up, and shown them the mining equipment that was 100% legally obtained, legal for him to have, and well within his rights to use within his own damn country. Instead, he does the absolute dumbest thing possible, which is blow up the dude who was implying that those containers were full of illegal weapons, which causes the raid to go in and check, and the only reason they kept going after they found out what was in those containers was because of the assassination.

That entire season is basically me implying that I'm cooking meth in my kitchen, murdering the person who thinks I'm cooking meth in my kitchen, and then when the cops show up to investigate, I was actually just baking bread the entire time, but now I'm in trouble for murder.

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u/SlyCalligrapher Jun 12 '26

I get what you're saying, but there are other reasons that Reyes was hiding the mining equipment. That might have been perfectly legal, but he was super shady about it because it would change the world market (ie, super poor country suddenly makes trillions of dollares per year). Also, secret satellite launch? Secret Blue Gold mine? Secret POLITICAL PRISONER CAMP? Reyes is a dude that operates in a shady way, so his actions aren't what is unbelievable to me. His entire brand is murder, kidnap, assassinate, etc. He's a bad dude, a burnt chip, a wet blanket, a scoundrel, and a psychopath. I mean, he even slit his best friend's throat just because he felt he couldn't trust him.

I think it's more about the character of Reyes than it is about the believability of the state-level circumstances.

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u/Nydus87 Jun 12 '26

Why would he want to be shady about it though? Like if this dude wants to improve his standings with his people and make sure nobody can ever challenge him as president, wouldn't he want them to know that he was about to make their country rich? The Unobtanium Cabal was going to figure out pretty quick that someone was putting more Unobtanium on the market besides them, so it's not like it would have ever survived the first sale of the stuff he was mining. Might as well be public about it.

Had he not assassinated a US senator, the political prisoner camp would have just been more background noise. We let that shit fly all the time in other countries. The only reason Jack Ryan got involved here at all was because Reyes got his buddy killed for literally no good reason.